Tale of Immortal: Five Blooms | Ao Yao Story Quest Walkthrough

Storyline (Ao Yao / “Five Blooms | Fire Bloom” Quest)

• You trigger Ao Yao’s story quest while roaming in the Ying region—potentially very early (around the first year).
• On the map, an Ao icon appears and keeps reappearing at the quest’s key locations, making it difficult to lose.

Focus: Ao Yao’s character and themes

• Ao Yao is framed as a dragon “girl” whose real age is unknown.
• Her Destiny and personality center on curiosity, particularly exploring the world and learning through words.

Recurring encounters and foreshadowing

Across multiple steps, you encounter:

• High-level cultivators and commentary that foreshadow what’s coming.
• A recurring “commentator” woman who appears during Ao Yao’s arc and also appears in the other four girls’ quests to provide hints and information.
• A sequence of boss fights against powerful carpia-type enemies, with some encounters escalating in difficulty.

Key narrative beat: the “10 years later” timing

• Ao disappears after an earlier segment, then returns 10 years later.
• The guide strongly emphasizes doing the Ao quest earlier because the “10 years” timing matters.

Quest completion and rewards

• After the final confrontation, the quest concludes.
• You can then interact with Ao normally, including partner-related interactions.
• The quest also unlocks meaningful combat progression through her unique rewards.

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Gameplay Highlights & Mechanics Called Out

Unique character features (DLC “Five Blooms”)

Each of the five bloom characters has:

• A unique special skill
• A unique special Destiny

Quest structure & dialogue presentation

• Dialogue may visually appear as if Ao is the one speaking while others talk.
• The guide suggests it’s essentially Ao addressing you, so you should treat the dialogue as her intent.

Power scaling / recommended readiness

• Timing and stage readiness matter.
• If you’re too early—e.g., cultivation stage mismatches such as Foundation / Chaos refining differences—fights become much harder, especially against mountain spectres/bosses.
• The guide recommends being late enough in a similar stage when attempting major boss segments.

Boss-fight emphasis: “survive first”

• Many fight objectives are framed around survival for a set duration (e.g., “survive for like 1 minute”), rather than quickly killing the boss.

Ao’s combat value: “True Dragon Flash / True Dragon Rising”

• Ao’s kit includes a spear-focused mechanic:
  • Learning Ao’s true dragon riding/spear mechanics improves how spear skills function.
  • The upgraded version (True Dragon Flash) is much stronger than the base skill.
• Highlighted effect:
  • When the upgraded skill lands, it gains additional spear hits/instances that significantly increase damage (described as scaling to around 2.5× damage early on).
• Visual indicator:
  • Using the upgraded skill adds small spears alongside the main spear, with a dragon-head shaped appearance.

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Strategies & Key Tips Mentioned

Pre-fight preparation

• Don’t go in underprepared—enemies can be “a little difficult.”
• If your cultivation stage is mismatched (you’re less advanced than a boss’s effective phase), you’ll struggle.

Use Ao’s spear special skill effectively

• Treat Ao’s spear special skill as an early-game tool:
  • Use it to charge through attacks and improve dodging/positioning.
  • The guide suggests you can use it three times via the icon/charge system.
  • It’s especially useful against predictable boss charges.

Surviving multi-part danger zones

• Avoid standing in the fire circle (the guide says you’ll die if you stay inside).
• Watch for attacks that are hard to dodge with basic movement—angle and direction matter.
• If possible, use motion skills with i-frames (invincibility frames) to survive otherwise unavoidable hits, especially in chaotic patterns.

When you’re underpowered

If you can’t brute-force damage, the guide suggests focusing on:

• Dodging hazards/circles,
• Using spear charges for fast movement/escape,
• Not necessarily attacking during survival-based objectives.

Dialogue choices and “ending guidance”

• The guide claims it guarantees a “good ending” if you follow one recommended path.
• It repeatedly frames which choices prevent a bad outcome as being “obvious” via common sense.
• It specifically warns about the “10 years” timing and advises completing Ao’s quest early to match the intended story state.

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Sources / Gamers Featured

• No specific gamer/channel names are stated in the subtitles (only a generic greeting such as “hello fellow cators”).